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The Pressure & Vacuum Group develops and maintains primary standards for pressure, vacuum, and small gas flow and disseminates the measurement capability of these standards to U.S. industry.

To accomplish the Group's mission we provide calibration services and maintain international comparability in pressure, vacuum, and low gas-flow. To advance the underlying science and engineering, we also:

  • Develop measurement techniques to meet U.S. industry requirements.
  • Perform benchmark measurements of material properties.
  • Investigate industrially important phenomena that require state-of-the-art pressure, vacuum, and low flow measurements.
  • Collaborate with industry and academia in developing new instrumentation for improved industrial process control or for use in critical scientific measurements.
Programs/Projects
Accurate Flow Meter and Viscometer for Gases — Integrated circuits are made in reaction chambers, or process "tools", each of which receives gases from several mass flow controllers at rates which can be as small as 1 cubic centimeter …
 
High-Stability Transfer Standard for the Barometric Pressure Range of 100 Pa to 130 kPa — NIST has developed a new pressure transfer standard capable of absolute-mode and differential-mode operation in the range of 100 Pa to 130 kPa. This important pressure range spans the barometric …
 
Physical Properties of Liquid Precursors — In striving to adhere to Moore's Law, the semiconductor industry is designing and using new metal-organic compounds. Precursor compounds deliver a metal atom to the surface of a hot silicon …
 
Progress Toward Realizing Pressure with Dimensionally-Characterized Piston Gauges — NIST provides world-class standards for pressure measurements through development of innovative approaches to realization of standards. The purpose of the work described here is to determine the …
 
 
Contact

General Information:
Douglas A. Olson, Group Leader
301-975-2956
douglas.olson@nist.gov

Audrey E. Stoutamyer, Office Manager
301-975-4840
audrey.stoutamyer@nist.gov

Fax
301-208-6962

Mailing Address
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, M/S 8364
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8364